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Cigar-box fiddle
Alternate name:Cigar-box violin
Maker: Walter Pelke
Date: 1935
Place Made:Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, North America
Model: none
Serial No: none
SignedMADE BY / Walter PELKE / on W. P. A., EMERSON / school project / MINNEAPOLIS, MINN / 1935
Markingsnone
Descriptioncigar box body, 1 string, one wooden peg, lateral
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion: National Music Museum, 1988), p. 61.
Object number: 02777